Force Effect: A Star Wars/Mass Effect Crossover

Prologue 1: The Rise and Fall of Darth Revan

A/N: "Tali is like Darth Vader's cute younger sister."

I cannot even remember where I heard that. I think it was some random comment on Facebook. But it became part of the seed that eventually sprouted into this story.
KOTOR was the first Bioware game I ever played and it is quite likely one of the best Star Wars games ever made. It shouldn't be much of a surprise then that i set about making a novelization for the game. Of course back in 2005, I didn't know just how common a practice for fanfics that was. I worked on the story on and off for the last few years but it never got close to being finished. Then, when i decided to finally settle down and make the big push, guess what? The story had begun to bore me! It didn't appeal quite the same way it had before. I struggled to find something to re-ignite my interest and then it just suddenly kinda hit me. What if the big twist was making a crossover? With another Bioware franchise? Obviously, Jade Empire and Dragon Age were out, being pure fantasy and all, so that left Mass Effect.

I consider Mass Effect to be Bioware at their best. Barring the "issues" around the ending of ME3, it's great stuff, pure adrenaline and adventure, so how could I resist? And so, Force Effect was born.

Be aware that the current title is kind of a placeholder; I might keep it, might not. Also, the characters of Mass Effect being introduced into KOTOR aren't the only twists I'm planning. I'm going to be cutting out Tatooine. Yeah, sacrilege, I know! But seriously, all Star Wars games seem to have this thing about including Tatooine in some way and I'm sick of it. It also doesn't help that I think Tatooine is actually the most boring part of the whole KOTOR game. I don't know quite yet what I'll be replacing it with but it will be awesome! And of course HK-47 will still be there; how could you have a KOTOR fic without HK?!
I'm also planning on doing "DLC" for the story after it's largely finished. You know, side-stories like Lair of the Shadow-Broker or Citadel.

One last thing, I have also recently decided that I no longer give two damns about what is "canon" in Star Wars anymore. Just throwing that out there.

Now that that's all out of the way, let's begin. By the way, I'd recommend the music track "Bastila's Theme" to be played for this part.

Enjoy!

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From the journals of Jedi Master Dorak, Councilmember of the Dantooine Enclave and Chronicler

Revan was one of the best and brightest students the Jedi Order had seen in years, not since the War of Exar Kun. He had an insatiable appetite for knowledge, which I suppose should have been our first clue. But we were happy at the time to have such a promising young Jedi in our ranks after what we had suffered during the war. When he became an apprentice and was welcomed into the Order as a full-fledged member, he, and his best friend Alek, traveled to the Jedi Temple on Coruscant to receive additional training under Jedi Master Zhar Lestin. He too reported that there seemed to be a void in Revan that could not be filled by the teachings of the Jedi. It seemed that even once Revan became a renowned Knight, he still felt that he was missing some purpose in his life.

When the Mandalorians came, he must have saw that his time had finally come. Well do I remember the arguments he made when the Mandalorians attacked and pillaged the Outer Rim Worlds beyond the Republic. I recall his fury when they invaded the Republic itself and nothing the Republic military could do seemed to stop them. The Jedi High Council on Coruscant felt for some time that a great Darkness awaited us somewhere in deep space and Revan became convinced that the Mandalorians were that threat. The Council did not agree with the wayward Knight, and long were the hours that Revan spent arguing with both the Council here on Dantooine and the High Council. I think that it was here that we first began to see the seeds of Revan's fall take root, though perhaps we were blind to them at the time. Finally, when the Mandalorians invaded and burned his own home world of Deralia, on the border between the Outer and Mid Rims, Revan had enough.